Package jade.core

This package contains the microkernel of JADE system.

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Description

Interface Summary

Location

Abstract interface to represent JADE network locations.

Class Summary

Agent	The Agent class is the common superclass for user defined software agents.
AID	This class represents a JADE Agent Identifier.
BehaviourID	This class represents an unique identifier referring to a specific agent behaviour.
CaseInsensitiveString	A name string, with case insensitive comparison and equality operations.
ContainerID
Profile	This class allows retrieving configuration-dependent classes.
ProfileImpl	This class allows the JADE core to retrieve configuration-dependent classes and boot parameters.
Runtime	This class is a Singleton class, allowing intial access to the JADE runtime system.
Specifier	This class represent a specifier and collects a name, a className, and an array of arguments.

Exception Summary

NameClashException	This exception is thrown when trying to create an agent with an already existing name.
NotFoundException	This exception is thrown when some component (agent, agent container, etc.) cannot be found in the agent platform data structures.
ProfileException
UnreachableException	This exception is thrown when some agent container cannot be contacted.

Package jade.core Description

This package contains the microkernel of JADE system. Three main assets are contained within this software package:

1. Base Agent class, with fundamental message passing and behaviour scheduling capabilities.
2. Distributed objects runtime environment to support agent platform.
3. Set of pre-built behaviours for basic task structuring needs.

This package features provide a simple message passing system with multiple transport protocols (Java events within the same Java Virtual Machine, RMI across Java Virtual Machines belonging to the same JADE platform, and standard IIOP protocol to communicate with different agent platforms) and a multithreaded execution environment for software agents, with preemptive inter-agent scheduling and cooperative intra-agent scheduling.